West (Mohill)
The Wests were a family from county Dublin who appear to have acquired land in Connacht by marriage. Cottage Vale house was the residence of the West family from the early 19th century. George West was leasing it from Charles Ensor in 1856. In the 1870s Reverend Augustus West was resident at Ardagh Rectory, County Longford. In 1842 he married Lucinda Digby Brooke of Prosperous, County Kildare. He owned 416 acres in county Leitrim as well as 1600 acres in county Galway and over 300 acres in county Roscommon. In January 1883 the lands of Carrownskeheen in the parish of Kilglass, barony of Ballintober North, county Roscommon, belonging to Reverend A. W. West, were advertised for sale with some land in King's County (county Offaly). The Irish Times reported the sale of this estate to Archdeacon Warburton in November 1883. Earlier generations of the family had intermarried with the Kellys of Castle Kelly and the Lysters of Athleague. Another family member Henry West of Loughlinstown House, county Dublin, owned 605 acres in county Roscommon and three acres in county Galway. In the 1870s, Hussey de Burgh recorded Reverend Augustus West, Dean of Ardagh, as the owner of lands in counties Galway, King’s County, Leitrim and Roscommon. Mathew West was associated with milling enterprises in the Ballymahon area at the time of Griffiths Valuation in the 1850s. Margaret West was among the principal lessors in the parish of Mostrim, barony of Ardagh, at the same time. The representatives of Margaret West, James Bessonnet and Matthew Brinkely, were lessors of townlands in the parish of Killoe, barony of Longford. In May 1855. In February 1856 property owned by Margaret West was advertised for sale by them in the Encumbered Estates Court. In 1852 property owned by George Beatty West was offered for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court.
Associated Families
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cottage Vale | Drumdarkan | Cloone | Mohill | Riverstown 66 | Mohill | Leitrim |
OSI Ref: H128001
OS Sheet: 33 Discovery map: 34 |
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Archival sources
- Land Judges’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), West, 23 Jan & 13 Nov 1883, Vols 144 & 145, MRGS 39/064, (microfilm copy in NUIG); National Archives of Ireland
- Documents relating to estate of Augustus William West in Ballinaglera, 1901. Pamphlet Files. ; Leitrim County Library
- Margaret West’s estate: rent book, 1839-86; County Longford Archives Service
- Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), West, 22/05/1855, Vol 34, MRGS 39/015, (microfilm copy in University of Galway Library); National Archives of Ireland
- Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), West, 19/02/1856, Vol 39 , MRGS 39/018, (microfilm copy in University of Galway Library); National Archives of Ireland
- Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), West, 30/4/1852, Vol 17, MRGS 39/07-08, (microfilm copy in University of Galway Library); National Archives of Ireland
Contemporary printed sources
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Mohill Union, 84.
- LEWIS, Samuel. ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland''. London: S. Lewis & Co., 1837: Vol I, 379.
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Leitrim: Vol I, 212.
- LEET, Ambrose. ''A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland''. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 164
- HUSSEY DE BURGH, U. H. ''The Landowners of Ireland. An alphabetical list of the owners of estates of 500 acres or £500 valuation and upwards in Ireland''. Dublin: Hodges, Foster and Figgis, 1878. [available online at www.askaboutireland.ie] : 471 & 472
- PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ''Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland''. HC 1876, LXXX: 300 (Galway), 306 (Leitrim), 319 (Roscommon).
- ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOKS, County Leitrim: Vol I, 212.
- ''GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Ballymahon Union, p.63 (Treel)
- TAYLOR, George & SKINNER, Andrew. ''Maps of the Roads of Ireland, surveyed in 1777 and corrected down to 1783''. Facsimile of 2nd edition. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1969: p.63 (Cranny)
Modern printed sources
- PINE, L.G. (ed). ''Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland''. 4th ed. London: Burke's Peerage, 1958.: 751-753
- ''Irish Times'': Land Judges Court sale reports, 14 November 1883, p.3